Game review

Guitar Hero World Tour

The latest version of the stupendously popular plastic axe-wielding party game plunges down the Rock Band route, adding drums and vocals to guitar and bass, which ramps up the fun factor even further. World Tour has a few advantages over Rock Band. First, it works with any Guitar Hero guitars you may already own, although it comes with a new guitar featuring a touch-sensitive fretboard halfway down the neck (ideal for fiddly solos). The drum kit is classier than the Rock Band equivalent, and the track listing is stunning, featuring the likes of Nirvana, Michael Jackson, the Beastie Boys, Jimi Hendrix and the Sex Pistols. But the game's unique feature is a virtual recording studio, which is surprisingly powerful and lets you lay down rhythm, lead and bass guitar, drums and vocal tracks, then edit them extensively (there are tutorials, but a more than a passing acquaintance with chords comes in handy). Simply the best ever version of the best ever post-pub game, Guitar Hero World Tour is the game of any frustrated wannabe rocker's dreams.